A staple of breakfasts and desserts, the Cavendish banana is now facing an unprecedented threat. A fearsome fungus, Panama disease, tropical race 4 (TR4), is endangering this variety, which dominates ...

Yelloway One is a new variety of banana that's edible and resistant to some key fungal diseases. It could help save the world ...

Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of bananas exported to developed countries are just one group called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is vulnerable to Tropical Race 4, or Panama disease, a fungus ...

Bananas originated in India over 5000 years ago as 'kadali phalam' and spread globally through Alexander the Great’s ...

Anyone can wear a T-shirt that says, “The World Needs More Whimsy,” but Steve Braithwaite puts his motor where his motto is. In fact, he put his whole Ford pickup into it when he refashioned it into ...

Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. These bananas are sterile and dependent on ...

By the 1960s, one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his ...

By the 1960s, one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his ...